Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) chaired a House Oversight Committee task force hearing on June 9, 2026, providing details on what he referred to as former President Joe Biden’s “backdoor amnesty” that led to over a million illegal aliens crossing the southern border into the United States. Gill delivered a blistering statement to open the proceedings.
“Prior administrations and the infinite amnesty lobby weaponized the U.S. immigration system both for political gain and at the expense of the American people, putting foreigners over our own citizens,” Gill went on to say at the start of the hearing. “The Biden Administration flooded our country with millions of illegal aliens, unvetted from all over the globe, and the impact has been to reduce working-class wages, to strain our social system, our education system, our healthcare system, and to culturally transform the United States.”
Gill then noted Biden’s huge expansion of Temporary Protected Status (TPS), which is a quasi-amnesty program that allows nationals from foreign countries to stay in the U.S., despite not having legal immigration status, so long as the government has designated their home country as having unlivable conditions due to either war or natural disaster.
According to a report from Breitbart News, Gill stated during the hearing that, “It was intended to be temporary … yet the Biden Administration abused it and has utilized TPS as a form of backdoor amnesty for over a million people who entered our country illegally. The numbers speak for themselves.” He pointed out that when Biden took office, only 410,000 foreign nationals with TPS were in the U.S.
By the time Biden left office in January 2025, that figure exploded to over a million foreign nationals with the TPS designation. “That includes Burma in 2021, Ukraine in 2022, Afghanistan in 2022, Cameroon in 2022, Ethiopia in 2022, Venezuela in 2021 and 2023, Haiti in 2024, and Lebanon in 2024,” Gill went on to say.
“About half of all current TPS beneficiaries weren’t even residing in the United States until after Joe Biden took office. In other words, TPS was a vehicle for providing backdoor amnesty for the very people that the American people saw pouring into our border for four years and voted President Trump into office to deport,” Gill continued.
“Moreover, the vast majority of the people covered under TPS did enter the U.S. illegally. And I think that’s really important. That includes an estimated 95 percent of all Venezuelan TPS holders and 91 percent of all estimated Haitian TPS holders,” the congressman explained. Users on Breitbart’s official site had strong opinions on the information revealed in the hearing.
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“Why is Brandon Gill always doing the bulk of exposing the corruption and damage to the country that Biden and Obama have done? Where the hell are the rest of the Republicans to help this guy?” one person wrote. Someone else noted how hated Gill probably is by Democrats for his work exposing corruption, saying, Gill’s really good at exposing Democrat corruption and I’m sure [D’s] consider him a monster, the perfect outcome!”
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